Dawntrail: Hopes, expectations and disappointments.

[CNitsah]

It was never portrayed like that in the game. Scion-disliking players latched onto it as a hope, but it was made quite clear in the initial "disbanding" scene that they were doing it for outward appearances rather than a real intention to go separate ways forever. It was the organisational equivalent of faking their own death so people would stop expecting them to be a major actor on the world politics stage.

Additionally, they did go off to pursue their own activities for a while, but we're not going to see those parts when we're not with them.

And finally, because they are pursuing independent agendas at this point, it seems that may have set them up for different Scions to have gotten independently hired by different factions in this new region.

I disagree with that. The whole "we will go our own way and can't go adventuring all together" (especially the second part) scene was not needed for for a disband plot. Plus when you leave the game, and look at live letter, they did play with that idea during pre 6.1 and 6.2.

I get tired of people coming with subtext explanation when it suits them "But it's obvious the Zenos dialog at the end of world talk about the player", but conveniently ignoring subtext when it comes to that kind of things. You can disagree that was the intent, but you can't say that was not there. I mean, a LOT of people took taht as a declaration of intention. And since they never really left during the patch, it felt like it was meant for the next expansion.